The alpha personal network is a perfectly modular concept, providing a wide range of monitoring, alarm and telemetric capability. At the core of this system is a small and wireless personal monitoring and signal device called the alphaScout. Since the fully disengaged alphaScout is not connected to a specific SCBA, the number of units needed by a brigade can be reduced by up to 75 %.
The alphaScout receives SCBA air pressure data from a transmitter on the SCBA backplate every second. The alphaScout then calculates remaining service time.
alphaScout can be enhanced with telemetric capability in order to send and receive powerful long-range signals. This allows incident personnel data to be continuously monitored by incident command through the base station. The MSA monitoring software runs automatically without operator intervention.
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